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Trump's New YorkHow the Family Got Rich in (and Swindled) the CityWednesday, February 7th, 6:30 pm - SOLD OUT​​Unpopular as he may be with New Yorkers, Donald Trump is a son of the city, and rose to great wealth and power in this liberal capitalist mecca. How did the family make it here, and what does it tell us about New York City history?

David Nasaw, the acclaimed biographer and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Professor of History at The Graduate Center, leads the discussion with Gwenda Blair, bestselling author of The Trumps: Three Generations of Builders and a President, and Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, author of The Making of Donald Trump and the new It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America.

Presented with The Graduate Center Office of Public Programs. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Those words don't seem natural together. But evangelical Protestantism was a powerful force shaping New York in the early republic, as the city went from relative colonial backwater to emerging global behemoth. ​Join us for a discussion with Kyle Roberts (Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of NYC, 1783-1860) and Kyle T. Bulthuis (Four Steeples over the City Streets: Religion and Society in New York’s Early Republic Congregations) about how the Protestant revivalist churches responded to the dramatic social and economic changes ​in NYC, and how they reconfigured life in early Gotham.

Morris Dickstein, distinguished professor of literature at The Graduate Center, moderates a panel on why New York City became a national and global citadel for the arts in the twentieth century,​and how painters, filmmakers, writers and others shaped the world's view of Gotham.

The authors of four new works explain:

Julia L. Foulkes, A Place for Us: West Side Story and New YorkFran Leadon, Broadway: A History of New York City in Thirteen MilesChristoph Lindner, Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, 1890-1940 and ​Robert A. Slayton,Beauty in the City: The Ashcan School​​

New York has often been a headquarters for social, political and economic reform. And the city's internationalism often gave movements here a more radical tinge. How did that global perspective shape far-left and progressive black activism in 20th c. America? And what should we learn from this radical past?

Margaret Stevens talks about her new book, Red International and Black Caribbean, which re-situates black radical New York during the interwar period within the global anti-colonial struggle. Christopher Tinson speaks about his new work, Radical Intellect, the first history of the NYC-based Liberator magazine, exploring the internationalist dimension of black journalism in the 1960s and '70s. ​Nikhil Singh, author of the new Race and America's Long War (examining the "War on Terror" in the context of U.S. racial foreign policy history), talks about black radicalism today. Premilla Nadasen (author, Household Workers Unite, and consultant on the National Domestic Workers Alliance “We Dream in Black Project”) joins and moderates.

Co-sponsored by Pluto Press, The University of North Carolina Press, The University of California Press, Verso Books, and The Museum of the City of New York. The authors' books will be available for purchase.​